While e-books purchased by consumers can last into perpetuity, libraries need to renew their leased e-material. https://apnews.com/article/libraries-ebooks-publishers-expensive-laws-5d494dbaee0961eea7eaac384b9f75d2

A Machine Learning algorithm walks into a bar.

The bartender asks, "What'll you have?"

The algorithm says, "What's everyone else having?"

"Armed with projectile frankfurters, some unruly Phillies fans began chucking their favorite Hatfield meat during a game last year, and the dogs soared like cans of corn throughout the stands and onto the field." https://apnews.com/article/philadelphia-phillies-hot-dogs-889d4ce003734551d2091bca85163d5d

“‘Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.’”—A. A. Milne

Antidepressants or Tolkien character? https://antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app/

Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
An interactive exploration of how long things take. https://samwho.dev/numbers

100 years later, long-lost Clara Bow silent film found in Omaha parking lot https://www.wowt.com/2024/03/08/exclusive-100-years-later-long-lost-silent-film-found-omaha-parking-lot/

Archaeologists used radiocarbon dating to date one mass grave to between the late 1400s and early 1600s, and found shards of pottery and coins dating from the later end of that range at the site.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/06/europe/mass-grave-nuremberg-germany-scli-intl-scn/index.html

An eleventh-century text describing the Cluniac sign language reveals that they had a rich vocabulary related to food, including:

For the sign of bread
make a circle with the thumb and
its two adjacent fingers, because
bread is customarily round.
https://www.medievalists.net/2024/03/bread-middle-ages

Surely, this will fix everything!
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/elon-musk-says-xai-will-open-source-grok-this-week/

In 2003, 90% of voters were men. Not surprisingly, voters selected predominantly male performers—nearly 82% of the 500 albums selected were by men. In 2020, with more women voters, we see a curious correlation with greater gender diversity in the albums selected: albums by women or mixed-gender groups jumped from 16% to 28% https://pudding.cool/2024/03/greatest-music/

Happy IDEs of March

How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s https://kottke.org/24/03/how-photos-were-transmitted-by-wire-in-the-1930s

Oculi Mundi is an online platform for exploring antique maps of the earth and skies https://oculi-mundi.com/

Overheard: I have a staple gun and an unhealthy sense of self confidence.

With inflation affecting the price of food, you might wonder if expensive sandwiches are worth it.
https://thetakeout.com/sandwich-prices-going-up-why-so-expensive-chefs-explain-1850580746

“Books are weapons in the war of ideas.” —President Roosevelt
From my parent’s copy of _The Picture of Dorian Grey_.

A moment of zen

The US has overtaken Russia as the most-breached country https://www.techspot.com/news/102040-number-data-breaches-falls-globally-triples-us.html